The Side of the Angels (audio story)

The Side of the Angels
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Liv, Helen
Featuring:	Ollistra, the Monk, Veklin
Main enemy:	Weeping Angels, the Eleven
Main setting:	New York City, early 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Benji Clifford
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	4.3
Part of:	Doom Coalition 4
Release date:	7 March 2017
Format:	1 Episode on 1 CD (3rd of 4 stories); Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG042
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-623-9
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The Side of the Angels was the third story in the audio anthology Doom Coalition 4, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka and Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair.

Publisher's summary

Cardinal Ollistra has plans for New York, plans which involve the Deputy Mayor and her sponsor, one 'Reverend Mortimer' – better known to the Doctor as the Meddling Monk. The Eleven arrives to stamp out the resistance, but that isn't the only danger the Doctor finds lurking in the shadows – for New York is a city of Weeping Angels.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Cardinal Ollistra - Carolyn Pickles, Jacqueline Pearce
• The Meddling Monk - Rufus Hound
• The Eleven - Mark Bonnar
• Veklin - Beth Chalmers
• Joanie Carrington - Ronni Ancona

References

• The Doctor compares the Monk to Robert Moses.
• The Monk uses a quantum communicator to speak to the Weeping Angels.
• The Eleven uses a Time Ring.

Notes

Textless cover.

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor recognises the Weeping Angels. (AUDIO: Fallen Angels)
• The Monk wishes to "start afresh" with the Doctor, deducing from his manner that he had been antagonised by a past or future incarnation of his. (AUDIO: To the Death)
• Ollistra and the Monk state that they did not bring the Angels to New York; they were already there. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
• The image of an Angel becomes an Angel. (TV: The Time of Angels)
• Liv uses Promethean Everlasting Matches. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks; AUDIO: Caerdroia)
• Liv warns Helen, "Don't look away. Don't blink." (TV: Blink)
• The Angels take the voice of a person they kill, with Joanie Carrington, as they later do with Angel Bob. (TV: The Time of Angels)
• The Eighth Doctor would later meet Ollistra's next incarnation on numerous occasions. (AUDIO: Day of the Vashta Nerada, Echoes of War, et al.)
• The Eleven calls the Monk "Mortimer," a reference to the name "Mortimus," which was given as his original name in PROSE: No Future.
• Mortimus is stuck in the 1970s. (AUDIO: The Rise of the New Humans)

External links

• Official The Side of the Angels page at bigfinish.com